Example sentences of "a [noun sg] through [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings . |
| 2 | Assessors scrutinised all aspects of the laboratory 's activities from receipt of a sample through to the final report . |
| 3 | Just before half time , the cherry and whites , who were black and whites for this game , forced a way through for the second try . |
| 4 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |
| 5 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 6 | Training in skills such as singing or dancing often seems to involve not just acquiring technique , but opening a way through to the basic level of power so that it can ‘ fuel ’ the performance . |